BHUBANESWAR: River protection activists on Thursday announced ... the government did not take steps to control pollution of ...

Director of public health Dr Nilakantha Mishra said the diarrhoea outbreak in Gopinathpur and Gadisagoda GPs was primarily due to poor sanitation and contaminated water from river Daya.

The delegation further requested the chief minister to recover encroached river land to facilitate free flow of such water bodies. Citing that pollution of Daya river resulted in spread of ...